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First Arctic Winter Games
197025 min 5 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Dennis SawyerR.C. Gibson
Production: Dennis SawyerR.C. Gibson
Sponsored by the Department of National Health & Welfare and by the Yellowknife Arctic Winter Games Society, and produced by Telecolor Films Ltd.
A short documentary film about the first Arctic Winter Games, held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in 1970. The inaugural edition of this international event was attended by more than 8,000 participants and spectators, including 750 Canadian athletes and 250 athletes from the US. The Games included many sports typically included in Olympic competitions, with a specific focus on Indigenous sports as well.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure - Winter Sports > CompetitionsWinter Games
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Northwest Territories, Nunavut and YukonSports, Leisure and Games
Credits
- director
- Dennis Sawyer
- R.C. Gibson
- producer
- Dennis Sawyer
- R.C. Gibson
- director of photography
- Jean-Pierre Lachapelle